Retiree, 89, Held for Trial as Auschwitz Guard

nyt ^ | June 18, 2014 | Jon Hurdle and Eric Lightblau

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Too bad he wasn’t a guard at Stalins Gulag, liberals would have ran him for POTUS.

[madison10]

Yes, it happened. Yes, it was horrible. The guy is 89 years old. Just leave him alone. He cannot pay for the sins of a whole evil regime. Have him apologize for his part in the mess and be done with it.

There...I said it.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Eastern Europe in the 30’s and 40’s... every choice you had was a bad one.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

No statute of limitations on crimes like this

[RetiredTexasVet]

Send his sorry a$$ back to Germany as soon as possible before he dies here and stains the soil.

[Bobalu]

I think you are right.

I’m not saying that time has healed this wound... I’m saying that to me it seems wrong to prosecute a very old man for something he did so very long ago.

I’m from German Jewish stock on my father’s side of the family.... I say leave this alone. To put this old man through the legal system at this late date seems a bit Les Miserables to me.

[acapesket]

Give him the “red pill” that Zero likes and let him get it over with.

[ZinGirl]

So? Why does living long enough make a difference in consequences? He was 69 when he lied about it....too much of a pansy to own up to it then. Karma is a b*tch....now he’s 89...so what?

[SoConPubbie]

Yes, it happened. Yes, it was horrible. The guy is 89 years old. Just leave him alone. He cannot pay for the sins of a whole evil regime. Have him apologize for his part in the mess and be done with it.

Sorry, but Murder is Murder.

He's had 70 more years of life than the 100's of thousands that he helped to put to death.

He is a monster, period, and deserves to die.

[Vendome]

C’mon

The guy’s retired!

/s

[ZinGirl]

If we were talking a loaf of bread, I could support it.

We aren't...and the guy was too much of a pansy to pony up the truth. Sucks to suck....he lived a helluva lot longer than anyone he shoved into an oven. Not crying a river at all. He can reap what he has sown.

[DuncanWaring]

Verdict first, then trial?

[Political Junkie Too]

The Jews wandered the desert for 40 years until the last of the generation that defied God had died off. Only then did they reach the River Jordan and the promised land.

Nobody said, "Oh, it was so long ago. He's 89 years old. What's the harm now?"

Crimes against humanity require the whole generation who participated to pay.

-PJ

[2ndDivisionVet]

When does George Soros go to jail?

[kevao]

Dude, that was like 70 years ago!

[Slump Tester]

Damn right! I’ll never understand these folks who think old nazis should get a pass. We should have executed everyone who ever wore an SS uniform.

[Steven Scharf]

You are wrong. “Mr. Breyer acknowledged two decades ago, when first questioned by the American authorities, that he had worked as a guard at Auschwitz, but he said that he did so “involuntarily” and that he had nothing to do with the gassings.”

[Talisker]

In other words, “what difference does it make”?

Thank you for appearing for jury duty.

You’re dismissed.

[Patriot Babe]

AMEN !! I ask the same question.